Houston, TX, August 14, 2014 -- Healthconnect announced today that Baylor College of Medicine has joined the regional health information exchange (HIE). Baylor’s entry is an important step in the integration of health information technologies that enable clinical faculty within an academic setting to enhance transitions of care by easily communicating with both referring physicians and patients.

 August 12, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GREEN BAY, Wis.--Healtheway, the non-profit, public-private collaborative that supports the eHealth Exchange, and IOD Incorporated, a leading provider of integrated health information management (HIM) solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems and clinics, today announced that IOD PRISM 6.2 is now recognized as an eHealth Exchange validated system.

Albany, NY, August 12, 2014 -- Health informatics is defined as the knowledge, skills and tools that enable the information to be collected, managed, used and shared for supporting the delivery of healthcare services and promoting health. Health informatics is one of the fastest growing segments of information technology and computer science.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – August 12, 2014 – DataMotion™, an experienced health information service provider (HISP) with the industry’s leading record of customer deployments and Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) attestations, today announced that the MEDITECH Solutions Group within Dell has added DataMotion Direct secure messaging to its industry-leading portfolio of services.

DENVER, Aug. 6, 2014--More than 70 providers at the Boulder Medical Center, a multispecialty group that also operates an urgent care clinic, are now using health information exchange, in addition to an advanced electronic medical record system, to coordinate care for more than 200,000 annual patient visits.Through CORHIO's secure electronic network, Boulder Medical Center doctors are now receiving laboratory results from hospitals and labs around the state without having to wait for faxes or other paper-based methods of communication. This is reducing patient wait times, helping doctors make faster and more accurate clinical decisions, and saving staff time previously spent tracking down patients' medical records.

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 5, 2014--Today, Access My Records, Inc. announced its patent-pending technology to provide hospitals, HIEs and healthcare software vendors with a "low-touch" solution to "auto-create" a patient portal originated from standardized HL7 patient documents (structured CCDs or unstructured CDAs)  sent over Secure Direct Messaging.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--Imagine dealing with two illnesses simultaneously – one behavioral, the other physical. It’s a reality for many. Sixty eight percent of adults with mental health conditions also have medical conditions, according to the American Psychological Association, impacting the healthcare system with high human and financial costs.

Topeka, KS, July 23, 2014 -- Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN), a health information exchange organization (HIO) reaching three million Kansans and ICA, a healthcare information technology company that helps healthcare providers impact the way care teams connect and healthcare is delivered has connected 81 healthcare organization together in Kansas to share critical health and behavioral health information. This achievement expands the ability to collect and securely share patient health information across a varied network of participants with disparate electronic health record systems.